Last week’s quarterly labour force statistics confirm what we already knew: South Africa’s unemployment levels are among the highest in the world, and pose long-term challenges for the future of our society. We know that a year after leaving school more than...
Online professional networking platforms are widely used and offer the prospect of alleviating labor market frictions. The study explores the running of the first randomised evaluation of training work-seekers to join and use one of these platforms. Training increases...
The study sought to build evidence, based on what is already being implemented to address the challenge, in terms of what works in fostering better employment outcomes for young people who struggle to navigate labour market pathways. Drawing on the social development...
Work-seekers’ job search decisions and firms’ hiring decisions use potentially noisy information about work-seekers’ skills. The study shows that assessing work-seekers’ skills in multiple domains, giving work-seekers the assessment results, and helping them to...
Social entrepreneurs – innovators with a social mission – are vital first responders to the COVID-19 crisis and are uniquely positioned to represent a new standard for today’s change leaders and governments. Yet social entrepreneurs do not have access to the resources...
